The Smiths
Points show how well known and in demand an act is today in Belgium and the Netherlands, based on public figures such as listeners and hits. They say nothing about the quality of a show. The letter is the level by the festival's own scale. How the points work ›
Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 8 nummers, hoogste #28 (There Is a Light That Never Goes Out)
- in the list since 1988, 37 years
- per song
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
Willy 48 1.6 a day KINK 47 1.6 a day BBC Radio 6 Music 15 0.5 a day Radio X 13 0.4 a day Studio Brussel 7 0.2 a day VRT Radio 1 6 0.2 a day FIP Rock 2 0.1 a day RADIO BOB! 2 0.1 a day Since we track the stationKINK 1.468 1.3 a day since Nov 2023 Willy 1.147 1.6 a day since Dec 2024 BBC Radio 6 Music 744 1.0 a day since Oct 2024 Studio Brussel 266 0.2 a day since Nov 2023 KEXP 131 0.1 a day since Nov 2023 Radio X 13 0.4 a day since Oct 2026 NPO 3FM 12 0.0 a day since Nov 2023 VRT Radio 1 11 0.2 a day since Sep 2026
De Tijdloze on StuBru
De Tijdloze is the all-time list of Studio Brussel, the Flemish rock station. Listeners vote for their favourite songs every year, and since 1987 StuBru has broadcast the top 100 at the end of December. Since 2019 the rest of the vote is known as well: 500 places in 2019, around 2,000 since 2021. A place above 100 did not make the broadcast. The figures come from tijdloze.rocks, an independent site that keeps every list since 1987. Click a column header to sort.
| Song | From | Years in the list | 2025 | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | 1986 | 37 (1988–2025) | #28 | #28 (2025) | #83 (1993) |
| How Soon Is Now? | 1984 | 6 (2020–2025) | #244 | #228 (2023) | #457 (2022) |
| Bigmouth Strikes Again | 1986 | 14 (1988–2025) | #525 | #21 (1991) | #525 (2025) |
| This Charming Man | 1984 | 6 (2020–2025) | #728 | #499 (2022) | #859 (2020) |
| Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now | 1984 | 4 (2022–2025) | #888 | #888 (2025) | #1402 (2024) |
| What Difference Does It Make? | 1984 | 4 (2022–2025) | #1386 | #1386 (2025) | #1813 (2022) |
| Girlfriend in a Coma | 1987 | 4 (2022–2025) | #1641 | #1484 (2022) | #2013 (2023) |
| Panic | 1987 | 3 (2021–2025) | #2040 | #1686 (2022) | #2040 (2025) |
| Ask | 1987 | 1 (2021) | – | #1323 (2021) | #1323 (2021) |
Records
Albums in the Belgian and Dutch album charts (Ultratop, Dutch Charts) and with gold or platinum (BEA, NVPI).
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatful Of Hollow | 2026 | #175 (2 wk) | – | – |
| Best...I | 2026 | #187 (1 wk) | #74 (4 wk) | – |
| The Queen Is Dead | 2017 | #46 (26 wk) | #11 (22 wk) | – |
| Complete | 2011 | #81 (1 wk) | – | – |
| The Sound Of The Smiths | 2008 | #68 (3 wk) | – | – |
| Rank | 1988 | – | #54 (4 wk) | – |
| Strangeways, Here We Come | 1987 | – | #20 (5 wk) | – |
| The World Won't Listen | 1987 | – | #15 (9 wk) | – |
| Meat Is Murder | 1985 | – | #39 (6 wk) | – |
| The Smiths | 1984 | – | #28 (2 wk) | – |
How popular is The Smiths compared with other countries?
Based on search volume and listeners from the various sources. Each country compared with the worldwide figure.
Per edition, historical
Score measured in the twelve months before each edition, place = rank in that line-up. The letter differs per festival: an A at Best Kept Secret can be a C at Rock Werchter.
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Over the years
◆ purple = album, ▲ red = festival in Belgium, ▲ green = festival in the Netherlands, ● grey = own concert. Click the legend to switch them on or off.
Place among all acts on this site: 80 = viewed or searched more than 80% of the other acts that month. The thick line is the average.
Studio Brussel since August 2023, NPO 3FM and KINK since 2020, the other stations since late October 2026. "Compare countries" shows the average per station.
Songs per station, last 18 months
| Station | Country | Most played |
|---|---|---|
| KINK | Netherlands | Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 6 · This Charming Man 5 · There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 5 · How Soon Is Now 5 · Panic 3 |
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 54 · Bigmouth Strikes Again 48 · This Charming Man 17 · Girlfriend In A Coma 14 · Panic 5 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Panic 3 · Girlfriend In A Coma 2 · The Boy With The Thorn In His Side 2 · The Headmaster Ritual 1 · There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Panic 144 · Bigmouth Strikes Again 140 · This Charming Man 139 · How Soon Is Now 136 · Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before 135 |
| FIP Rock | France | Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before 1 · I Don't Owe You Anything 1 |
| KEXP | United States | How Soon Is Now 16 · Bigmouth Strikes Again 8 · Panic 5 · This Charming Man 5 · There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 3 |
| RADIO BOB! | Germany | Girlfriend In A Coma 1 |
| Radio X | United Kingdom | There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 2 · This Charming Man 2 · Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 1 · The Boy With The Thorn In His Side 1 · How Soon Is Now 1 |
| egoFM | Germany | There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 1 · Bigmouth Strikes Again 1 |